Cloud Categories

[mario]

From what I can tell there are three types of cloud categories & examples: *information gathered from various sources*

Cloud Desktop - applications residing in the cloud and not in your desktop

Microsoft "Cloud" OS (http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=349)
Google Applications (http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/index.html)
Adobe AIR (http://www.adobe.com/products/air/everyone/)
icloud (http://icloud.com/)
SaaS (http://www.salesforce.com/)


Databases of the Cloud - databases that reside in the cloud

Apache CouchDB (http://incubator.apache.org/couchdb/)
IBM solidDB (http://www.amazon.com/SimpleDB-AWS-Service-Pricing/b?ie=UTF8&node=342335011)
Amazon SimpleDB (http://www.amazon.com/SimpleDB-AWS-Service-Pricing/b?ie=UTF8&node=342335011)
Microsoft SSDS (http://www.microsoft.com/sql/dataservices/default.mspx)
Apache Hadoop (http://hadoop.apache.org/core/)
who Hadoop's? Facebook, The New York Times, IBM, Fox.... (http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/PoweredBy)


Servers of the Cloud - what you may think about when you think "cloud"

Cloud Grid Computing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing)
Virtual Hosting (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_hosting)
Blue Cloud (http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/22613.wss)
CDN - Content Delivery Networks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Delivery_Network)
Online Provisioning (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisioning)


Would you agree?